Within the past week alarms were set off by Kamala Harris’s communications team. This included Symone Sanders (a highly-respected strategist) and Vice President Kamala Harris. Friday morning, Saturday December 4 It Washington Post reported on the front page that this morale problem “reignites leadership concerns.” How can she take over for Biden?
The Post The edgy points were omitted from the main page. “Critics scattered over two decades point to an inconsistent and at times degrading principal who burns through seasoned staff members who have succeeded in other demanding, high-profile positions.”
Anonymous ex-staffers working for Harris prior to her appointment as vice president claimed Harris would not read briefing materials provided by staff and then berated staff when they were unprepared.
This was the hot quote behind the wall. “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work…With Kamala You have to endure constant, soul-destroying criticisms and her lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”
What network coverage is available on ABC, CBS and NBC Zero.
One two-minute chat with MSNBC was found after a search for cable news. PostReporter Tyler Pager, Saturday morning CNN at 6:42 AM You mostly hear about this on conservative media — Fox, Newsmax, OAN.
A syndicated TV gossip channel Inside Edition reported the hot quote about Kamala the soul-destroying bully on Monday as they reported on her attendance at the Kennedy Center Honors show. Their top story that night was “Butt Lift Surgery.” But they’re doing more thorough White House reporting than ABC, CBS, and NBC.
The networks ignored the negative news as things turned bad for the veep. One poll put her approval rating at 28%. Two networks instead highlighted Kamala’s October 30 booster shot. On November 6, ABC’s Zohreen Shah reported the Earth-shaking news that Kamala “lit up her home in bright colors” for the Hindu festival of Diwali (puffing her double-minority biography, that her mother came from India). Her sober comments after her trials by Kyle Rittenhouse’s killers, Ahmaud Abery’s trial were reported by the networks.
On November 19, they all reported the “historic” factoid that Kamala was the acting president for 85 minutes as President Biden had a colonoscopy. The December 2 Today on NBC informed the nation that Doug Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a vice president, lighted the “National Menorah” near the White House.
The only real scrutiny came on November 18, when ABC’s Good Morning America aired a pre-recorded interview with Vice President Harris that lasted six minutes. At the end, George Stephanopoulos asked touchy questions about tensions between Biden and Harris and that some friends think she is “underused.” She gave a droning non-answer. The “PBS NewsHour” offered a brief story on that exchange, adding “the White House denied any tensions.” The other networks did nothing.
Even ABC’s World News Tonight skipped that part, but on the night before the big interview aired, anchor David Muir offered a scintillating tidbit that the vice president discussed how “bringing internet to all corners of rural America will help countless families.”
These networks celebrate Harris as “historic,” and that translates into trying to cover her career in bubble wrap and protect her from the kind of scrutiny reporters usually apply — even to white Democrats. Harris is a very close candidate for the presidency. However, it’s absurd to think that these media outlets only care about reporting on those in power.
